BoxingScene.com caught up with Ruslan Provodnikov shortly after his 10th round TKO victory over Mike Alvarado. The newly crowned WBO junior welterweight champion said that even though he entered the fight as the underdog, he knew that he would leave the ring with his hand raised.

"I was very confident in myself. I knew that I had a great training camp and I was very confident that I would win and it showed," Provodnikov stated.

In the lead up to the fight, Alvarado said that he planned on using the same boxing style that he had used to defeat Brandon Rios in their rematch this past March. He said that Provodnikov wouldn't be able to bait him into the firefight that he lured Tim Bradley into in their fight earlier this year.
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Alvarado is still one of the most exciting fighters to watch but in his last two fights he's been the one to back up and use a lot of movement around the ring and thats why his last two fights weren't as exciting as the first Rios fight. What I really want to see is the two guys he was backing up from. Rios vs Ruslan.. That is can't miss FOY contender !! It can possibly be the most exciting fight we see in a long time